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@kairsten.bsky.social
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MidwifeKT on twitter. midwifery, politics, cats, parenting, autism, nerdery, books, feminism, animals, architecture, repro health, abortion, Chicago. not necessarily in that order. pronouns: she/her but apparently I'm agender, who knew?

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Lake Superior! Live! @lake-superior.live · 07/10/2026
Current* conditions near Bayfield, WI:
View looking SSE from Port Superior Marina overlooking Pikes Bay in Lake Superior. // Image captured at (local time): 2026-10-06 22:11:00 CDT (about 8 min. prior to this post) // Image sourced from: windy.com // Current Temp in Bayfield: 64 F | 18 C // Precip: scattered clouds // Wind: W at 7 mph | 11 kph // Humidity: 63%
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Julia Haslanger @juliajrh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Chicago: Anyone know why five helicopters, police and sheriff dept, flew low in a line over the city, from south to northwest?
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Hellhole resident @kairsten.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Chicago why did 5 helicopters just go over Goose Island in formation?
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 14/08/2026
This particular claim of plagiarism crossed my timeline, and so I read the entire thing. This is an incredibly careful, lengthy discussion (with spreadsheets!) about the claim that was made.
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Hellhole resident @kairsten.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Me: I can't spend any unnecessary money for quite a while. Also me: [favoriting uranium glass on etsy] *sigh*
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Elle Ess @viamarsala18.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
When there’s one guy at the peaceful thing that’s like “counterpoint: firebombing!” That guy is a fed every time
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Hellhole resident @kairsten.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
No no no this is good
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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 20/07/2026
It's a scam all the way down. Taylor Farms gave MAGA Inc. $1M USD less than a week after FDA postponed implementation of food traceability rules. www.patreon.com/mattbc/posts...
FEC Schedule A itemized receipt, line C. Contributor: Taylor Fresh Foods Inc, 911-B Blanco Circle, Salinas, CA 93902. Date of receipt: 03/26/2025. Transaction ID: SA17.4550. Amount of receipt this period: $1,000,000.00. Marked "Memo Item" and labeled "NON-CONTRIBUTION." Receipt-for boxes (Primary/General/Other) are blank. Aggregate year-to-date: $1,000,000.00.
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Hellhole resident @kairsten.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
I planned such a good 10th birthday observed day for my kid yesterday that I'm effing exhausted today on her actual birthday To be fair that's much how I felt 2.5 hours after her birth ten years ago
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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Benoit Blanc (incredulous): Is this nominally august chamber even fully cognizant of how many of its number have slipped the veil?
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 12/07/2026
i know you’re looking for it. here she is, girls. here she is, world
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 12/07/2026
Everyone gets fooled sometimes, but if you credulously post an image or video that people reply to tell you is fake/AI-generated and you leave it up anyway (because “it’s still funny” or whatever) you’re making the misinformation problem worse and will be blocked immediately.
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Hellhole resident @kairsten.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Can I use this idea for the kids to sell more cookies next year??????
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anti-zionist dog 🇵🇸 @puppydoggaming.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
i will say lindsey graham being asked by a reporter how mitch mcconnell is doing, answering “i don’t know, i’m going to check right now” and then dying is hilarious
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
and there we go. again, all this could have been avoided by the simple rule of 'don't support a candidate with a Nazi tattoo'. Not a challenge! www.politico.com/news/2026/07...
politico.com
Woman who dated Graham Platner says he sexually assaulted her
The Maine Democrat denied the allegations and said, “Any accusation of non-consensual behavior is categorically untrue.”
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Billy OceanGate 🇵🇸 @stitzch.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
The rig I'm on has put up first aid guides that were made with AI. Wouldn't bother with CPR there, would be more concerned by the fact is head isn't connected to his body
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Hellhole resident @kairsten.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I'm considering trying to imagine up what I would have at my ideal Great American State Fair but I'm worried I broke my imagination with burn out.
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Hellhole resident @kairsten.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I'm enjoying not knowing if the fireworks in my neighborhood are from "it's still the weekend of the 4th" or for the Mexico-England game. The yelling is definitely the game.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
By far the best thing about the Great American State Fair is that DC statehood activists have infiltrated it (with official permission!) and are lobbying attendees to support their cause. I saw several MAGA tourists receiving the polite but vigorous spiel for DC statehood and it warmed my heart.
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
See? Cuties (Via: www.instagram.com/reel/DaHJ2Yh...)
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
people who can barely find them on a map losing their minds screaming for Cabo Verde and Dr Congo is why sport is great
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Heather M. Collins🗽 @heathersdesk.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
I would like to answer his question! "What happened here?" Because Danville, Virginia is one of the most important towns in America you've never heard of. 🧵
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Hellhole resident @kairsten.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
The awkward thing about reading this ebook version of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich is opening up my ereader and a giant, furious picture of Hitler comes up as the cover before it opens to the page I'm reading. Like what if someone sees that on the bus and thinks I am a fan of him?
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Hellhole resident @kairsten.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
In the last few weeks my car has been declared a total loss and my cat has died. The pet insurance automatically canceled my cat's policy, said they will refund any remaining amount, and sent me condolences. The car insurance sent me documents for the renewal at the end of July.
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Rien Gray @riengray.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
I was only on HRT for three weeks or so, not enough for anything physical to change, before I was suddenly able to look in the mirror for the first time in 20 years.
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Hellhole resident @kairsten.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Cancer cat's cancer came out of remission. After an ER visit, restarting chemo, and not eating for three days - today he let us know it was time for him to go. He was the best cat I've ever met, even given my other best cats. He saved me during so many dark times. I will miss him impossibly much.
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Hellhole resident @kairsten.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
@pennyvixen.bsky.social I wanted to tell you that I've been going through an impossibly hard three weeks and binge-listening to the audiobooks of The Goblin Emperor and the rest of the books have been shepherding me through it. Thank you.
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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
What made John Brown a great man was not actually that he was a "great" man. It was that he recognized himself as a regular man that rejected white supremacy. And was willing to die for that. That when he saw another Black face, he saw a human like himself. May 9, 1800 he was born
left to right:

1. John Brown by W. E. Burghardt DuBois 

2. The Legend of John Brown. A Biography and a History by Richard O. Boyer

3. Fire on the Mountain. What If John Brown Had Won At Harper's Ferry? The Classic SF Novel of a Black Utopia in the American South by Terry Bisson
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Hellhole resident @kairsten.bsky.social · 06/05/2024
May 5th is international day of the midwife. And ALL of the graphics involve birth. Midwives are experts at birth, but we do so much more. Here's a graphic I made for some of the rest of us. Did I get the exact color codes for the pink and blue from the trans flag? Well MAYBE I DID.
A graphic that says

International Day of the Midwife at the top

Left side then says Abortion, right side says "trauma-informed care"

Then there's a 2 by 2 grid of photos
Top left: a bottle of misoprostol and box of mifepristone sitting on a desk
Top right: oval blue pills, which are estradiol used in hormone therapy for trans women
Bottom left: a vial of testosterone 
Bottom right: hand holding a copper iud, a hormonal iud, and a Nexplanon

Bottom left words: gender-affirming care
Bottom right words: bodily autonomy
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Hellhole resident @kairsten.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Entire thread
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Hellhole resident @kairsten.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
My 9-year-old, asking a question I can't exactly remember about if there is blood everywhere in the body. Me, a very normal parent: pretty much, there has to be because blood brings oxygen to our body, and without oxygen cells die. That's why heart attacks hurt, it's the cells dying without oxygen.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 24/04/2026
Yes, I think the enormity of Elon Musk racking up Pol-Pot levels of mass killing is so hideous to contemplate that many people just….aren’t.
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Hellhole resident @kairsten.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
What does it mean when you're worried you're not scoring your Generalized Anxiety Score screening correctly.
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Hellhole resident @kairsten.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Today is going to be really stressful and long which is why the cat woke me up an hour after I fell asleep, and I'm still awake, two hours later. Thanks, buddy.
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Hellhole resident @kairsten.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Uterus shaped pasta. IUD shaped pasta. The possibilities are endless.
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Thrilled that my first new short story in several years, "Constellations," about astronauts crashlanding on a distant planet, has been published by the @technologyreview.com. Acquiring editor Rachel Cortland. Art by Rogan Brown. Free link to avoid the paywall: ter.li/r3tbrsgr
a complex biosphere in vivid color in an illustrative style inside a circle and outside all white with shadow, with suggestion of complex ferns and other vegetation; art by rogan brown
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
The Wetland Project has been my favorite alternate-reality radio experience since it began. Since it only happens once a year, you can’t become accustomed to it. Close your eyes and be washed over by the sonic reality of an isolated bog on Saturna Island!
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Hellhole resident @kairsten.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
The 9-year-old and I are reading The Westing Game, aka one of the best books ever written. She's into it, and it's definitely slightly more advanced than other mysteries she's read before. Today we read a part where one character is said to have removed "incriminating evidence" from another's bag.
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Lake Michigan! Live! @lake-michigan.live · 15/04/2026
Current* conditions near Chicago, IL:
View looking east from the Skydeck atop the Sears Tower towering over the Loop, Millennium Park, Chicago Harbor and Lake Michigan beyond. // Image captured at: 2026-04-15 01:06:12 UTC (about 1 min. prior to this post) // Image sourced from: youtube.com/@earthcam // Current Temp in Chicago: 76 F | 25 C // Precip: moderate rain // Wind: SSW at 15 mph | 24 kph // Humidity: 69%
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Hellhole resident @kairsten.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
This was happening to my kid *last year* and I had her seat moved because she said she couldn't concentrate to learn.
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Hellhole resident @kairsten.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Super super excited about the Orban defeat. My friend who lived in Hungary and follows things closely says the winner might not be much better on issues but - it's still very much proof that change is possible electorally.
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Hellhole resident @kairsten.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Ok I thought I didn't quite have aphantasia until now because I thought if I tried really hard I could visualize. But I just closed my eyes and realized what I thought was visualizing was thinking of a memory of an image. I'm still not *seeing* it. People just be... seeing things all day, huh.
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Hellhole resident @kairsten.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
IT'S THE SAME FOOD THAT'S IN THEIR BOWLS ALREADY
Two grey-and-brown tabby cats standing up to eat dry food out of a bin of it, which is in between their food dishes.
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Birds of a feather 🏳️‍⚧️ @robinyourgrave.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
I'm one of those trans women. I worked ground ops for Artemis I. I am torn between celebrating the success of my friends and peers and grieving how my dream of working for NASA was shattered by hateful assholes in Tallahassee
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Hellhole resident @kairsten.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
I'm getting the 9-year-old's music on her computer for her. The songs are already on her mp3 player. 'New Order, what's that?" "It's a... band?" "It IS?" "Yes?" "I always thought it was a button you could press to get the songs in a different order!" I almost died.
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Hellhole resident @kairsten.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Y'all I just started thinking about the hypocrisy of Louisiana promoting New Orleans hedonism while restricting abortion and actually found myself starting to growl
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Hellhole resident @kairsten.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
How do you Google "why is there no traffic like normal?" Like is it a holiday I don't know about? The kid is in school. What's going on.
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Hellhole resident @kairsten.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
WHAT
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